Guided Breathing

Breathing exercises have been shown to help reduce stress, improve mood and make you feel more relaxed and energised with positive effects on the performance (
read scientific research
). Follow the small yellow ball to perform the guided breathing exercise. But how do you know you are actually doing your breathing exercise well?

Monitor Your Heart Rate

You can know it through your heart rate variations. While you perform the breathing exercise, HeartRate+ monitors your heart rate . Hold the tip of your finger over the camera lens

Are You Doing Well?

HeartRate+
is the first application for iPhone able to measure how well you are doing your breathing exercises by means of displaying the reached level of
Coherence
and the related average score.

The physiological principle of the
Coherence
is based on the fact that your heart rate increases while you inhale and decreases while you exhale.
HeartRate+
also displays the graph of this variation.

For a more professional use, like Yoga Masters,
HeartRate+
provides, as an option, the in app
Coherence Spectrum.
With this view you can visualise the heart rate components outside the target frequency.

Track Your History

With
HeartRate+
each exercise is saved, so you can review your history at any time.

From the history table summary you can access the details of each performed exercise.

You can also delete any of the performed exercises.

Share Your Results

with
HeartRate+
you can also share your results via email, Facebook and Twitter

Get it Right Away

Are you interested in knowing more about the physiological mechanisms related to the cardiorespiratory coherence? Read Here
Are you interested in knowing more about the scientific evidences of the advantages related to the cardiorespiratory coherence? Read Here